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A second death connected to the weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas has been reported. Both the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun newspapers say 25-year-old Anthony Anaya of Everett, Washington was an EDC festival-goer who was reported dead late Saturday at Vdara Las Vegas resort on the city's strip. See also: …
Corinthian Colleges, one of the nation's largest for-profit college corporations, was poised to shut down after acknowledging its lifeblood (funds from student loans and grants) was being delayed by the U.S. Department of Education. But now the trouble-plagued, Santa Ana-based company says it has reached a deal with the feds to stay open–while it pursues …
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Christopher Victorio The Clark County Coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas Saturday morning. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren't yet available to the media, an official at the coroner's office told us. If drug use is suspected, it's likely that …
[Editor's Note: Jack Grisham is an author, hypnotherapist, T.S.O.L. front man and all-around troublemaker. This column, True Story, may or may not be factual, with characters who may or may not be real.] Some people might call it entrapment–his idea of offering free rides–but to Robert A. Jones, he'd be doing a service, helping out …
Is Bosscat Kitchen & Libations a bar that moonlights as a restaurant, or is it a restaurant that's actually a bar? There was a time when we'd call it a gastropub, but that term is now as trite as frozen yogurt. As with other newcomers of its ilk, Bosscat is not a pub that merely …
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In January 2013, an incandescently brilliant American political activist and computer programmer named Aaron Swartz was hounded to suicide by the overzealous U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz. Anyone who argues differently has a desk drawer full of government paystubs. Brian Knappenberger's The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz connects the dots of …
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The death of a transgender activist who fought against deportations that break up same-sex couples is being investigated as suspicious, according to the Anaheim Police Department. ] The body of 28-year-old Zoraida Reyes was discovered around 10:50 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot behind a Dairy Queen in the 200 block of North State College …
The official results of Egypt's elections aren't going to be announced until next week, but the winning candidate couldn't be clearer. Exit polls show former Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi taking a Hosni Mubarak-like landslide victory with over 90% of the vote over his sole opponent. The election is under intense scrutiny with a …
See the update at the end of this post with results from the anti-DUI enforcement by 38 Orange County law enforcement agencies over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. ORIGINAL POST, MAY 23, 6:05 A.M.: Orange County's “Avoid the 38 DUI Task Force”–the number referring to how many law enforcement agencies are part of it–is literally …
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Click here for the update on police believing this incident WAS a murder-suicide. ORIGINAL POST, MAY 28, 7:09 A.M.: Some holiday weekend, no? We previously reported on a possible murder-suicide with four bodies found in a family's home in Mission Viejo. At the opposite end of Orange County, in La Habra, police are investigating the …
2008: A Moxley Confidential column reports on Orange County Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson opining that if a victim's vagina hadn't been “shredded” during a sexual assault then the woman gave at least partial consent to her attacker. 2012: R. Scott Moxley's scoop results in the California Commission on Judicial Ethics publicly admonishing the …
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U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials have busted an alleged Orange County Courthouse property auction conspiracy that involved fake high bids and kickbacks. According to DOJ records obtained by the Weekly, Sean Frankhouse–an auctioneer at Reliable Posting and Publishing (RPP) that sells foreclosed residential properties usually at local courthouses–used an accomplice to cheat honest bidders. …